Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defendants are entitled to give evidence of their honest state of mind , and to explain why their dominant motive , irrespective of any dislike they may feel for the plaintiff , was to comment on a matter of public interest . |
| 2 | They may provide for the position of the institutional equity investors in respect of warranties on a flotation , in particular , whether or not they would give warranties in the offer for sale agreement to the merchant bank leading the flotation . |
| 3 | Guide those who shape the decisions of government that they may plan for the good of all society , and not set neighbour against neighbour , class against class , region against region . |
| 4 | This will normally mean that they must work for the company full-time . |
| 5 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 6 | Four members of the sprint squad missed the bus and arrived at the stadium later than they should have for the morning heats . |
| 7 | Emergency laws giving wide-ranging powers of arrest and detention , first introduced in 1981 after the assassination of President Anwar el Sadat , were extended when the People 's Assembly voted on May 8 that they should apply for the period June 1 , 1991 , to May 31 , 1994 . |
| 8 | If the air traffic controllers want to save a lot of anguish then they should close for the night . |
| 9 | They will pay their Poll Tax , they 'll pay for their electricity , they 'll pay for their water , they 'll pay for the sewage disposal and , what is more , they will pay rent . |
| 10 | He says she is still the MP she was ; in 1986 she told a hard left conference that ‘ if they come for Militant in the morning , they 'll come for the rest of us in the afternoon ’ . |
| 11 | Spycatcher lawyer Malcolm Turnbull said : ‘ Australians are passionately proud of their country , and , no matter what respect they might have for the Queen , they want their country 's symbols to be Australian . ’ |
| 12 | Before the announcement , Baker had an unprecedented meeting on Feb. 14 , at a previously closed nuclear weapons development laboratory , Chelyabinsk-70 , with scientists there , who outlined suggestions for civilian work which they could do for the West . |
| 13 | In the spring of 1956 both London and Washington decided that all they could do for the moment was to allow the Aswan offer to " wither on the vine " . |
| 14 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 15 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 16 | She said an ex-boyfriend had a house across Lake Pontchartrain they could use for the weekend . |
| 17 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 18 | They 'd look for the car , and when they could n't find it , they 'd probably come back . |
| 19 | Whenever motorists used a particular section of road they would pay for the upkeep of the road and for the congestion they caused . |
| 20 | BRAZIL 's 1-0 victory over what amounted to a Holland B team in Rotterdam on Wednesday night continued the process of pragmatic regeneration they have undergone since the desultory performances in Europe last summer which left some observers wondering whether they would qualify for the World Cup at all . |
| 21 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 22 | In the end he judged that the investment of hope should be made : that they would fight for the calf 's life and risk disappointment . |
| 23 | What the cracks were like and how they got there he did not say , but he did show that , if they existed , which was not unreasonable , they would account for the weakness of ordinary glass . |
| 24 | It blew open those divisions , but did not stop the present Prime Minister saying , when he spoke as Chancellor in that debate : ’ I believe that they will vote for the consistency , courage and conviction with which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has led this country so successfully for so long . ’ |
| 25 | So they will neither go to your children nor to be sold , but they will stay for the future … ? |
| 26 | How shallow , how futile , how desperate that world sounds now , on the scythed grass , beneath the trees where the fruit they will conserve for the winter is ripening . |
| 27 | ‘ They will settle for the devil they know . |
| 28 | If , as expected , they finish second behind Uhlenhorst in their group , they will play for the bronze medal against Terrassa or Bloemendaal — both formidable opponents . |
| 29 | I shall describe those provisions and how they will work for the adult sector at large , including the Croydon education and training service . |
| 30 | Then they will ask the research council for the £30 million they will need for the project . |